Taking the land to make the city : : a bicoastal history of North America / / Mary P. Ryan.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (465 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Taking the land
- Before the land was taken
- The British and the Americans take the Chesapeake
- The land of San Francisco Bay: cleared but not taken
- pt. 2. Making the municipality: the city and the pueblo
- Erecting Baltimore into a city : democracy as urban space, 1796-1819
- Shaping the spaces of California : ranchos, plazas and pueblos, 1821-1846
- pt. 3. Making the modern capitalist city
- Making Baltimore a modern city, 1828-1854
- The capitalist "pueblo" : selling San Francisco 1847-1856
- pt. 4. These united cities
- Baltimore, San Francisco and the Civil War
- Epilogue.